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In a recent article published on the , Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91¡¯s Ishan Roy, MD, PhD, attending physician, Cancer Rehabilitation Clinic, and research scientist, was featured prominently as an expert on cachexia ¡ª a cancer-related muscle-wasting syndrome.
Dr. Roy explained the Cancer Rehabilitation Clinic¡¯s methodology ¡ª ¡°treating exercise like medicine¡± ¡ª as one of the current treatment approaches for patients with cachexia:
- Assessing how exercise can be adapted to a person¡¯s specific physical abilities.
- Trying to learn how ¡°exercise can be more precisely delivered so that it can be combined with medical therapies or nutritional changes.¡±
- Using gait training.
- Improving core strength.
Dr. Roy also noted that oncologists appear to be more attuned to cachexia symptoms in their patients and are offering more referrals to the SRAlab program.
¡°I'll tell you that people are excited to have this opportunity,¡± he said.
